Data discovery tools

Data enables companies to make informed decisions and understand needs of the customer and the business. In order to leverage data, data discovery tools help organizations visualize, analyze and get insights from it. They start by collecting data from multiple sources to then consolidate, classify, and catalog it into a single repository to simplify its evaluation.

Datavid Rover

Datavid Rover is a powerful data discovery tool that enriches your data and identifies occurrences across the entities you value the most, along with presenting them in a readable format. It infers relationships between documents through machine learning, so you can see the complete picture for each entity. Moreover, Datavid Rover’s knowledge graphs, entity-relationships are brought together into powerful visualizations you and your team can leverage.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: No
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: No

Qlik Sense

Qlik Sense is the best-in-class visualization and discovery tool that uses AI to help your users understand and use data more effectively, minimizing cognitive bias, amplifying discovery, and elevating data literacy. It combines a real-time data pipeline with action-oriented analytics capabilities, creating Active Intelligence that provides in-the-moment insights and drives immediate action.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: Yes
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

ODD Platform

ODD Platform is an open-source data discovery and observability platform. It provides end-to-end data discovery, observability, and trust from ingestion to production. Moreover, the ODD Platform makes the ML world a part of data discovery by operating ML entities as first citizens.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: Yes
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

erwin Data Intelligence

erwin Data Intelligence combines automation with market-leading data cataloging, data stewardship, and self-service data discovery in a single software suite so your enterprise can discover data, harvest data, structure and deploy data sources, analyze metadata, assess and manage data quality, and do a lot more. With erwin Data Intelligence, you can automate the discovery, assessment, and governance of enterprise data assets.

Business Glossary: Yes
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Trifacta

Trifacta offers a unique end-to-end data wrangling tool to conduct a data discovery process by taking raw data sources and transforming them into the appropriate format for analysis. With Trifacta, the user is able to see how the data will be used for different types of analysis. Trifacta has a six-step iterative data-wrangling process that leads to a more accurate analysis. The steps include discovering, structuring, cleansing, enriching, validating, and publishing. Moreover, it provides users with the best visualization for each specific type of data automatically.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Ketch

Ketch is a dynamic, integrated data discovery and classification toolset. It is always on and constantly scanning internal data systems and classifying data sets using responsive machine learning models, giving you a complete and growing picture of data across your organization. Ketch’s user interface gives your administrators secure, centralized data control across your various data systems.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: Yes
Data Profiling: No
Data visualization: No
Free edition: No
Metadata management: No
Notifications: No

SAP Agile Data Preparation

SAP Agile Data Preparation lets you discover, acquire, prepare, assess the quality of, enhance, and share data with a visual, interactive interface that helps eliminate the inefficiencies of traditional approaches – without depending on IT for help. You can quickly connect to and upload multiple data sets, including relational databases or files, on-premise and in the cloud. The software will then help you discover and understand the data, cleanse, enrich, and combine your data.

Business Glossary: No
Data Lineage: No
Data Profiling: Yes
Data visualization: Yes
Free edition: No
Metadata management: Yes
Notifications: Yes

Data enables companies to make informed decisions and understand needs of the customer and the business. In order to leverage data, data discovery tools help organizations visualize, analyze and get insights from it. They start by collecting data from multiple sources to then consolidate, classify, and catalog it into a single repository to simplify its evaluation.

Collecting, cleaning and preparing data in order to gain insights from it is crucial for any business. Data discovery tools enable organizations to look deeper into data, get important insights and share them across the whole company. But at the same time, they help prevent exposure of sensitive data, and enable the organization to implement appropriate security measures.

Other features data discovery tools provide with are:

Machine learning capabilities, including predictive analytics

In-memory analytics, enabling faster query response times

Data preparation and tools to improve data quality

Metadata management

In order to help you find the right data discovery tool for your organization, we’ve listed some of the best softwares that will empower your team to detect informative patterns and extract valuable insights.